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Since Aurorarcher has marble, I decided there's no point putting more hammers into the Bone Palace. I switched to some badly-needed workers instead.
The barb warrior followed his programming and moved onto the forest for better defense. Unfortunately for him, I had a fawn in position to attack, and the odds were better than if he'd stayed on the flat.
The fawn won, but was damaged well into the yellow.
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Turn 95: a new fawn is exploring to the west. He found another barb city.
On the Khazad border, I built another city. This seems like a reasonable border to me, although Aurorarcher may not be happy when both of these cities are pumping out 6 culture (creative+carnival+tiger cage).
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More exploration, more apparent dead ends. This map appears to be a maze of twisty little passages, all different.
(I have a fawn and scout under the bubble for the silks).
September 4th, 2015, 03:56
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Turn 97, belatedly.
More exploration in the west:
Another barb city in the east:
More Khazad warriors in the north:
Probably a reaction to my super warrior. Neither of us is building roads toward the other, so I'm going to hope he has enough on his hands on his other fronts.
September 5th, 2015, 08:48
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Turn 98. I only had about 75% odds against the spider on flat land, so I'll try to lure him into the woods with a sacrificial scout.
The spider should have 95% odds. If he chickens out and flees into the woods instead, the fawn will be able to kill him in two turns.
Not that it all matters much:
Buy my explorers are still going through the motions in the west:
It looks like this map is in the shape of a snowflake, with branching arms radiating from a central hub. Potentially interesting, if one of the players doesn't score an early great scientist from a lair, a super-promoted scout, and fills up the hub with cities. Have I mentioned before how much I hate lairs?
And I don't mean to minimize Aurorarcher's accomplishments: he's done a great job of snowballing his early advantages. But it's just kind of a boring game, where it's almost turn 100 and I don't even have contact with one of the other players. Plus there's been a clear leader for pretty much the whole game and the rest of the world seems incapable of doing anything about it.
September 5th, 2015, 09:31
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Maybe, next time set up the game with no lairs, maybe.  
September 5th, 2015, 10:22
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September 11th, 2015, 18:07
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The game is apparently moving again after a one week hiatus. The west is looking more and more like a dead end:
The south is not!
I barely beat the spider (see the inset at bottom center). It's interesting to see Ventessel's unit.
September 15th, 2015, 04:04
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Just in case this game is staggering on because I haven't said the magic words yet: I concede to Aurorarcher.
September 18th, 2015, 07:08
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Apparently the game is still going. Here's a quick overview:
Aurorarcher has a ridiculous amount of stuff on his border with me:
In the south, I've found Ventessel's borders. I begged for Ale from jalepeno, and he gave it. No open borders option.
I captured the spider, who's now healing in Ash.
In the west, I've captured a lion and mapped the dead end:
I finally finished Priesthood, now it's going to be 6 turns till I can put it to use. My economy sucks, and I have no way of hurting Aurorarcher. Dreylin is dying, and I'm next.
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